The camera is OK, it is just that Codexers can't use any 3D camera EVER. I don't know what's the problem with it. Sure, sometimes there is a lamp or wall which sticks into the view, but that's what camera rotation is for. You just rotate it a few degrees.
I just don't get it. You expect that you will have a fix cameraview, where you will always see everything? Whaaaaaat? The game is designed with a rotateable camera in mind, it is not possible to use only one cameraview. But how difficult is it to press the goddamned middlemousebutton and rotate it a little.
Of course, but I don't get why is it difficult for some people to use your mouse to rotate a camera. It is so simple, so effortless, it is like scrolling the camera in the 4 directions.
Wait, people don't like the camera because they can move it around?
Wait, people don't like the camera because they can move it around?
People like fixed camera because you don't have to move it around and the view is always good.
Wait, people don't like the camera because they can move it around?
People like fixed camera because you don't have to move it around and the view is always good.
People are lazy and unimaginative, newsflash.
Wait, people don't like the camera because they can move it around?
People like fixed camera because you don't have to move it around and the view is always good.
People are lazy and unimaginative, newsflash.
Camera is a technical feature, it's about functionality. With 3d camera you MAY achieve the same results, emphasizing the word 'may' here if you take a lot of time constantly tweaking the camera on every map which is a cumbersome experience. Now with fixed camera the game is developed in such a way that everytime it looks ok for eye.
It's not about people being lazy, it's about being functional or broken.
If a window is broken you do not become creative and fill the window with glue, you replace the broken window.
Wait, people don't like the camera because they can move it around?
People like fixed camera because you don't have to move it around and the view is always good.
People are lazy and unimaginative, newsflash.
Camera is a technical feature, it's about functionality. With 3d camera you MAY achieve the same results, emphasizing the word 'may' here if you take a lot of time constantly tweaking the camera on every map which is a cumbersome experience. Now with fixed camera the game is developed in such a way that everytime it looks ok for eye.
It's not about people being lazy, it's about being functional or broken.
If a window is broken you do not become creative and fill the window with glue, you replace the broken window.
Strict 2D just a convenient form of streamlining. Players are used to it being that way and are too lazy to master more advanced control systems, and designers are too stupid to make proper, unrestricted 3D cameras (just look at this shitty WL2 camera) and are too lazy to design good levels and assets to look nice in more than one point of view. And I meant unimaginative in the sense that both designers and players seem to think the future is faster horses, instead of cars. Not that I blame them for coming to stupid conclusions and rationalising them afterwards, I can count the number of RPGs with good 3D cameras on one hand.
3D cameras aren't broken, it's their implementation that shouldn't be left to the minds of children.
Yeah. They were actually going to do 3D fixed, but then they discovered it wouldn't cost anything to just unlock the x-axis and let the user spin it to taste. The only way they've really failed here in my opinion is locking the y-axis to the z-axis (low camera=3/4, high camera=top down). If they'd just let us look around from a high perspective, or angle up a little more from a close perspective (we don't need pure "over the shoulder", but a little closer to that would be helpful), this wouldn't be broken.
